From
RISE Stronger: The White House is saying the text of a
new healthcare bill is likely to circulate Friday "or by the
weekend," in hopes that Congressional leaders will schedule a vote by
midweek before Trump reaches his 100-day mark. The bill is bad. http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/329580-ryan-gop-putting-finishing-touches-on-healthcare-bill
Like its counterpart, it will 1) Raise premiums by 20%, 2) Result in 24
million more uninsured, 3) Give 600 billion in tax breaks to the wealthy
and large insurance and drug companies, 4) Create an age tax, 5)
Effectively eliminate Medicaid expansion and ration future Medicaid care,
and 6) Threaten essential health benefits like maternity care, and critical
mental health services. In
addition, and despite the GOP’s rhetoric, the new proposal will allows
waivers from the ACA’s protections for pre-existing conditions,
essentially eliminating its guarantee of affordable coverage. **KEEP CALLING YOUR REPS!**

Congress is working on its
funding bill, which would need to be passed in order to keep government
open beyondApril
28th. With the deadline approaching, it is likely that the GOP will
use this time limit to pressure Democrats into approving things they
otherwise wouldn't, like the border wall or a GOP healthcare bill, to
avoid a government shutdown. http://wapo.st/2oiQFVpLet's call our MoCs
and tell them to stand strong against these intimidation tactics.

The U.S. is part of
the G20, an international forum
for the governments and central bank governors from 20 major economies,
and will meet in Germany in July. Trump’s policies are not working towards
the goals set forth by GC here in our own country or worldwide: 1) Quality education for all children
and young people, 2) Universal access to health, 3) Equality for women in
workplace, 4) Sanitation for all, 5) Ending all forms of malnutrition by
2030, and 6) Critical support for refugees. Let’s listen to this message Angela Merkel sent
a message to Global Citizens ("GC") as one of the G20
leaders: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/angela-merkel-g20-global-citizen/Then,
let’s ask our government leaders to join and adopt these goals here and
worldwide:https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/action/set/no-one-left-behind/

From
The Loyal Opposition: Call your
three members of Congress and ask them to support the bipartisan
Russia Sanctions Review Act of 2017 [H.R.1059/S.341]. We are concerned that the
administration may attempt to strike a deal to do business with Russia
despite numerous investigations into Russian meddling in our election and
we want Congress to stay on top of the issue by passing this bipartisan
legislation. For more info: https://www.theloyalopposition.net/daily-ctas/daily-call-action-april-20th-2017/

Congressman
Phil Roe (R-TN) has proposed draft legislation to put the burden of the
cost of health insurance premiums on military members by deducting money
from their paychecks. “Congress must stop nickeling and diming America’s
service members and veterans.”http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/gi-bill-benefits-new-fees-future-enlistees-house-lawmakersLet's call and write to
congressman Roe to let him know that we support veterans and oppose his
legislation. Phone:202-225-6356or write: 336 Cannon HOB, Washington DC
20515. Let’s also contact our own
and tell them the same.

Other Actions

What
we are hearing about the referendum in Turkey is not just bad for Turks;
it's bad for us, too. President Tayyip Erdogan just won a referendum thatsignificantly increases the powers of his
office. What's worse, President Trump formally congratulated him, despite
there being widespread protest in the streets and numerous reports of
election fraud. Erdogan has been successful at quashing opposition so far,
likely because of the many years he has spent discouraging freedom of
speech in Turkey. We don't want this to happen to us. We can read up on
the referendum in this shortand informative article:http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38883556.
To keep up on this situation, let’s follow the NYT's Turkey
correspondent @PatrickKingsley on Twitter.

From
The Night Owl Activist: Democratic candidate Rob Quist is a community leader,
business owner, and popular singer/songwriter who was recently endorsed by
Senator Bernie Sanders. Democracy
for America has developed an online phone bank tool that you can use
to make calls from anywhere in the country and help get the word out about
Quist. They're holding twovirtual
phone bank eventsthis
weekend. Training and materials will be provided. Sign up to make calls
here: https://www2.democracyforamerica.com/events/dfadialer/quist

Here’s
another fun way to get and send postcards via a phone app. Postagram has been around for several
years, but using them for political reasons is fairly new. For 99-cents each we can create our own
postcard using our own photo, personalize the message, and send it to
anyone in the country. Let’s check
it out: https://sincerely.com/postagram

ProPublica, an independent,
non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public
interest, is collecting personal stories of hate and bias. They may share this info with their
partner newsrooms across the country and with some civil rights
organizations that are working with them on this project. They will not share personal
information without our permission.
They know that some of us have gone through traumatic situations
and they appreciate our coming forward to help tell this story. Here’s the link we can use to tell our
stories: https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/hatecrimes-form

FromSleeping Giants: We're hearing whispers that
Amazon is considering dropping Breitbart! Help convince them: Call Amazon
customer support at (888)
280-4331. You don’t have to say much. Just say something like:
"I am a customer of Amazon and I want to to urge the company to drop
Breitbart over its hateful content. Does Amazon have plans to drop
Breitbart soon?

Petitions to Sign

Trump
has nominated Tennessee State Senator Mark Green to be the Secretary of
the Army. Green has a history of discrimination against women, Muslims,
immigrants/refugees, and the LGTBQ+ community. Let's sign this petition to
let our Senators know that there's no place for hate in the army: http://action.winwithoutwar.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/

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Rogan’s List is a daily, thoroughly vetted action list for people who are unhappy with the current administration and who want to become more politically involved, but do not have time for the research. The compiler, Susan Goodrich Rogan, is a retired librarian who has worked in university, community college, and elementary school libraries. She is the mother of eleven and the grandmother of nine..